Background
Nolan, Alan Tucker was born on January 19, 1923 in Evansville, Indiana, United States. Son of Val and Jeannette (Covert) Nolan.
(Alan T. Nolan is one of our most esteemed historians of t...)
Alan T. Nolan is one of our most esteemed historians of the Civil War. His classic history The Iron Brigade was chosen as one of the "100 best books ever written on the Civil War" by Civil War Times Illustrated. His articles have appeared in such publications as The American Historical Review, Gettysburg Magazine, Civil War, Civil War Times Illustrated, Indiana Magazine of History, and Virginia Magazine of History and Biography and he has been awarded the Nevins-Freeman award by the Chicago Civil War Round Table. Nolan is not the typical Civil-War historian. That he is a top-notch historian, no one can deny. But his legal training at Harvard, his career in the law, and his many years as an officer of the Indiana Historical Society have given him remarkable insights not imaginable by other historians. This new collection of previously published material celebrates Nolan's life-long research and study of the Civil War. Included are essays on the Iron Brigade, Gettysburg, and leaders such as Lincoln, Robert E. Lee, John Gibbon, and Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain. Central to all of the essays is Nolan's admiration for the valor of the common soldier and his conviction that the War was neither romantic nor glorious, though its results―emancipation and the maintenance of the Union―were surely monumental.
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Nolan, Alan Tucker was born on January 19, 1923 in Evansville, Indiana, United States. Son of Val and Jeannette (Covert) Nolan.
Bachelor of Arts in Government with honors, Indiana University, Bloomington, 1944. Doctor of Humane Letters, Indiana University, Bloomington, 1993. Bachelor of Laws, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1947.
Law clerk United States Court Appeals (7th Circuit), Chicago, 1947-1948. Associate Ice, Miller, Donadio & Ryan, Indianapolis, 1948-1958, partner, 1958-1993, retired, from 1993. Chairman Disciplinary Commission Supreme Court Indiana, Indianapolis, 1966-1973.
(Alan T. Nolan is one of our most esteemed historians of t...)
Life member National Association for the Advancement of Colored People Indianapolis, vice president, 1950-1954. Board directors, founder Indiana Civil Liberties Union, Indianapolis, 1953-1960. Board directors Indianapolis Art League, 1981-1987.
Chairman, board trustees Indiana History Society, Indianapolis, 1986-1998. Trustee Eiteljorg Museum, Indianapolis, 1987-1993. Fellow Company Military Historians, American Bar Foundation, State History Society Wisconsin.
Member American Bar Association, American Civil Liberties Union, Indiana Bar Association, Indianapolis Bar Association (board managers 1958-1960, chairman Grievance Committee 1960-1964), Indianapolis Civil War Round Table, Ensemble Music Society (board directors 1999-2008), Phi Beta Kappa.
Married Elizabeth Clare Titsworth, August 26, 1947 (deceased November 1967). Children: Patrick A., Thomas C., Mary F., Elizabeth T., John V. Married Jane Ransel DeVoe, February 7, 1970.
Adopted children: John C. DeVoe, Ellen R. DeVoe, Thomas R. DeVoe.